Our school of 300 children has now been closed in Kenya by the Kenyan Government due to Covid-19.
This means our children now DO NOT HAVE FOOD, school provides them food when the school is open. Now they will revert back to the rubbish dumps, scavenging for food on the streets and begging. PLUS, currently there is no water coming into the slum due to a transformer in need of repair by the Government which is not happening. We can solve this problem by putting up solar panels on the roof of our school to provide 3 phase power which will give us power to our pump enabling us to disperse water freely to the whole community. These are the necessities to survive in everyday life, now we also fight CV-19. Social distancing is impossible in crowded Nakuru, there is no room for confinement when there is only one room for many. How do you protect the elderly, how can you tell populations to wash their hands when there is no water, or use gel to sanitize their hands when they don’t have enough money for food? Children have temperatures most days, from malaria, the common cold, sickness they will not be tested for COVID-19. What we can do is to give food, give water and soap, reach and teach as many as we can on how to protect themselves the best they can. |
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